LEADS: Center for Student Leadership Development

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Daemen College offers many programs throughout the year that will aid all students in developing their leadership skills. Below are a list of upcoming events sponsored by the LEADS Center or other Daemen College student service departments.

Do you have a question about LEADS? Feel free to contact the office of Orientation & Student Leadership at 716-839-8494 or at LEADS.

Spring 2010 Calendar of Events

 

February 6

Small College Consortium Student Leadership Conference
D'Youville College
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM


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February 11

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Time Management

Business Building, Room 107
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch will be provided
Reservations Required
Study - Meetings - Friends - Events - Job - Eat - Sleep! How do you fit it all in? It doesn’t have to be that hard. Come to this workshop to find out strategies for not only doing it all, but doing it well.
Sponsored by: The LEADS Center

February 25

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Marketing for Dummies:  The Power of Logos

Business Building, Room 107
11:30am-12:30 p,
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Join us for a lively, interactive presentation where we will showcase the power of marketing logos for programming initiatives and how to take your marketing efforts and SPICE THEM UP A NOTCH! We promise that you will leave with ideas to help sell, strengthen, and improve your attendance of your traditions and student activity programming with our helpful hints and marketing strategies for all. This presentation will also include how to be sustainable with your marketing initiatives!

March 2

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Study 101

Business Building, Room 107
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch will be provided
Reservations Required
Come to this all inclusive presentation on study skills, best practices for studying for tests and how to make the most of group study!
Sponsored by: The LEADS Center and the Learning Center

March 9

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
The 3 Ls of Leadership

Wick Center, Alumni Lounge
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch will be provided 
Reservations Required
Some say leaders just need to use common sense. Why is it then that excellent leadership isn’t more common? This session explores three “L”s of leadership--Lead with a capital L, lead with a small l, and love unconditionally--and how to use all three to be the most effective leader, collaborator, and human being you can be.
Sponsored by: The LEADS Center

March 25

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
"Life - A Giant Juggling Act?" - Maintaining a Healthy Balance that is right for YOU

Wick Center, Alumni Lounge
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch will be provided 
Reservations Required
Come explore the "Wellness Model" during this interactive L.E.A.D.S. presentation to see how YOU can most effectively juggle everyday responsibilities associated with your college and personal life.  Wellness is a concept that includes taking responsibility for your own health, creating a full and balanced lifestyle and being the best person YOU can be.  A health and wellness self-assessment will make you leave this discussion with a new perspective and unique tips to be able to reach a "healthy balance" that is right for YOU!

March 30

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Social Networking:  The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Wick Center, Alumni Lounge
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch will be provided 
Reservations Required
Some people view social networking websites only as a means of keeping in touch with friends and family. This session explores the Dos and Don'ts of social networking websites and how to use them to effectively market yourself as a professional.

April 8

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Seven Habits of Highly Successful People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Wick Center, Alumni Lounge
11:30am-12:30pm 
The book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, provides a principle centered approach for addressing personal and professional concerns and became a blueprint for personal leadership development when it was published in 1990. The habits are a remarkable set of inspirational standards for anyone who seeks to live a full, purposeful and good life, and are applicable to individuals of all ages. This session, presented by faculty from Daemen’s M.S. in Executive Leadership and Change program, will highlight how you can bring Covey’s habits into your every day life.
Lunch will be provided
Reservations Required
Sponsored by: The LEADS Center  

April 13

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Public Speaking Made Easy

Business Building, Room 107
11:30am-12:30pm
This workshop will teach you techniques that will make any presentation a whole lot easier on your nerves. You will learn powerful skills and solid strategies to survive presentations, including the ability to:
**Connect with your audience
**Get your point across clearly
**Remain calm, cool, & collected even through the question-and-answer periods
Lunch will be provided
Reservations Required
Sponsored by: The LEADS Center  

April 27

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Taking Care of You: How to Cope When Stressed

Business Building, Room 107
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch will be provided
Reservations Required
Dr. Anne Gilles-Thomas will help you identify ways for you to keep yourself healthy and happy while coping with the stressors of school and life. Come prepared to listen, share, learn, and relax.
Sponsored by: The LEADS Center

April 29

Lunch, Learn, and Lead Series:
Meditation II: A Leader's Tool to Manage Stress

Wick Center, Alumni Lounge
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch will be provided
Reservations Required
As a follow up to our fall semester program, this workshop will delve deeper into how meditation can help us become less stressed and can help us take action with integrity. Using integrity to control our own actions helps us develop a sense of peacefulness in our lives.  

Programs being developed:

Please stop by frequently to view new events added to the schedule

 

Leadership for YOU!

Attention Faculty, Staff & Students:

Want us to develop a workshop for your class or organization or have topic ideas for future programing? Contact the LEADS Center and we will design a program meeting your needs or the needs of your class or organization.

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